The title says it all. My road bike is still trashed, but that doesn't stop me from going on grouprides. Every year, the club meets at Wes's house for night mountain bike rides. My mountain bike is a total piece of garbage and needs to be thrown in a ditch, but hey, it's all I have right now. I spent a little over an hour fixing it up, tuning the derailers, putting my road pedals on it and all that stuff.
Despite being crippled for a few weeks, I didn't do half bad tonight. The group did a usual 26 mile route, and I remembered most of it. There were a couple climbs but they weren't too bad compared to last year. I was riding at a CAT 4 level before my wreck, and now I'm lacking a bit. I'm pretty sore from the ride, mostly because the seat post on my mountain bike is an inch short, and I'm already half an inch over the max on the post.
Chad Payne, a rider in the group has set his mountain bike up so the bike's dimensions are almost identical to his road bike. I'd really like to do that too, but honestly I feel that it would be a waste of money on the bike I have now. I'm sure the parts going into the bike would cost more than what the rest of the bike is worth. Speaking if which, I was planning on buying a new mountain bike before I wrecked. Sure would have been nice /sigh :(
Oh yeah, if anyone reads this and feels nice enough to give me a 700c shimano 10speed compatible wheel it would really help me out a lot. It's basically all I need to resurrect the beast :P
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How's the collar bone doing now?
Oh it's completely healed now I think. I re injured it a few weeks back, but it feels almost as good as new now.
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